#the persuaders!

[mariocki]

RIP Stephen Greif (26.8.1944 - 23.12.2022)

"I think [Blake's 7] was character-driven, and that’s really what counts in the end. The fact that the effects were fairly – you know – not slick in the way that Star Wars was…but then they had a hundred times more budget than we did, and rightly so. That doesn’t really come into it. It’s the stories, really, and the interrelation of characters which I think always interests people.

Oh I loved it. I loved every minute of it. I loved it because of the people. We all became great friends and we all wanted it to work. We all worked very hard on it. The director was great, the producer was a good guy, and yes, I loved it. It was good fun."

#stephen greif #rip #death ment tw #blakes 7 #blake's 7 #travis i #armchair thriller #rachel in danger #special branch #citizen smith #the persuaders! #the merchant of venice #the protectors #treasure island #dixon of dock green #thriller #the new avengers #spaghetti two step #the sandbaggers #return of the saint #and so the b7 family gets a little smaller once again :( and so soon after chris boucher #stephen was a superb villain in b7 and a consummate character actor across various old tv guest spots #but he was also a stage actor of subtlety and range‚ and spent several years with the National Theatre #working with Olivier and Peter Hall and all manner of theatre legends across his long and distinguished stage career #i usually try and rec something lesser known in these posts but Travis really is such a wonderful performance #i would say that his comic turn in Jack Rosenthal's Spaghetti Two Step is something very wonderful and deserves to be more widely seen #rip stephen <3

[all-action-all-picture]

Roger Moore (in that coat!) as Lord Brett Sinclair with Catherine Schell in The Persuaders! episode The Morning After. First shown on UK television on 21 January 1972.

#21jan #1972 #the persuaders! #roger moore #the persuaders #catherine schell #lord brett sinclair

[ornithorynquerouge]

Lord Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) - The Persuaders!

#Lord Brett Sinclair #The Persuaders! #roger moore

[rwpohl]

the persuaders!, tv series 1971-72

#the persuaders! #tv series #1971 #roger moore #tony curtis #death proof

[leseigneurdufeu]

I’m not fond of splitting the screen in two but there are two exceptions to that: the opening credits of The Persuaders, and the scene in Goncharov where we see Sofia’s driving from above on the left and talking about the current state of the naples mafia in the right.

#goncharov #the persuaders!

[cemeterything]

"objectively physically attractive but in possession of negative rizz" is one of my favorite character concepts. i think it's so great when there's an absurdly hot person who's just a complete fucking loser. the mood is unsalvageable the moment they open their mouth kind of deal. you get no bitches because you're so sucks.

#🐉 #this is abt terror amc fitzy btw. nobody wants to fuck you you are annooooooying! #like i simply would not hit that you could NOT persuade me to endure it

[filmszeresz]

FILMSZERÉSZ TOP 100 TÉVÉSOROZAT - 98. Minden lében két kanál

Nem is kellett más mondania a bemondónak a 70-es, 80-as években, csak azt, hogy akkor most jön kedves nézőink Roger Moore és Tony Curtis!

És Pistike se ugrált tovább az ágyon a csíkos pizsamában (ha még egyáltalán ébren lehetett az esti főműsoridőben, hisz a TV Maci már aludni küldte), apa addigra gondosan kitöltötte a sört, anya kezében ott volt a nagytányéron a sajtos ropogós. A tévékkel felszerelt kocsmákban meg ütögették a készülék tetejét, hogy mire megjönnek a nagy művészek, ne fusson a kép.

A Minden lében két kanál két főszereplője különösen kedves a magyarok szívének: Tony Curtis leginkább származása okán volt kiemelten népszerű (meg hát, mert kurva nagy sztár volt), Roger Moore pedig az egyik első nyugati csillag volt a Magyar Televízió képernyőjén. Hisz Simon Templar nyomozásait a kinti premierhez képest szocialista viszonylagossággal korán megvették és sugározták. (Bond-filmjeit csak a rendszerváltozással láthattuk törvényes forrásból.)

Imádták hazánkban a Minden lében két kanalat.

És ezt is elég korán megvették. Lehet azért is, mert nyugaton (különösen Amerikában) nem volt kiugró siker. Az USA-ban például ráküldték a rettentően sikeres Mission: Impossible-epizódokra. És az nem volt jó ötlet. Nem is lett belőle második évad, sőt, ez az egy is mindenféle vágatban és sorrendben lézengett a világ képernyőin. Nagyon lehet szeretni, a főcímzene a faszaságok faszasága, a két elegáns playboy nagyszerű. A humora kicsit modoros, de még annak is van patinája. Egyszerűen cool. A magyar szinkron meg annyira zseniális, hogy amikor a 90-es években új szinkront akartak csinálni Láng József és Sztankay István nélkül, majdnem utcára mentek a nézők. Nem viccelek. Gyakorlatilag megvétózták a cserét. Aztán persze maradt Láng és Sztankay. A két zseni.

#1971 #the persuaders! #minden lében két kanál #kovács gellért #filmszerész #top 100

[voltaical-art]

whadya mean he didnt tell you he loves you??? his eyes literally went soft when he looked ur way...

#bg3 #wyll ravengard #tav #wyll x tav #paladin #baldur's gate 3 #voltaical ocs #bishop #wyllll baby you are my ANGEEEEELLLLL #this scene rips my heart out i replayed it a few times to figure out some dialog #AHHHH i just wanna wrap wyll in a blanket and tell him how much i love him ;_; #also its sooo interesting that you need to persuade him to kiss you. i didnt do that in my original playthrough #cause it felt out of character for bishop #but it rlly plays into the headspace wyll is in like he feels so undeserving of love and affection #that hes not even THINKING of having a romantic moment with you #youre the one who has to bring it up #also im so sorry about my shit handwriting i am too lazy to redownload all my fonts onto my new computer and am enjoying lettering by hand #even if its atrocious

[kthulhu42]

TRAs making up insane strawmen terf arguments because they don't actually know what we believe: exhibit A

What we actually believe:

#radblr #radical feminism #terfblr #This is why I don't argue with them #They're either willfully ignorant or too stupid to persuade

[mariocki]

Stuart Damon guest stars as Texan oil baron (and Simon's new bff) Rod Huston in The Saint: The Ex-King of Diamonds (6.17, ITC, 1969); this episode was the direct inspiration for Roger Moore's subsequent series The Persuaders! (ITC, 1971 - 72)

#fave spotting #stuart damon #the champions #craig stirling #the saint #the ex king of diamonds #itc #1969 #the persuaders! #classic tv #something about the formula of stiff upper lipped english gent with new money American wiseguy really appealed to the production team #producer Robert S. Baker and ITC head honcho Lew Grade seem to have begun planning The Persuaders! almost immediately from this point #bringing Moore back (and with a much greater creative control than he'd had even on The Saint); alas not returning was Stuart Damon #i mean i don't think it's any reflection on him or his performance here; they replaced him with goddamn Tony Curtis‚ a bona fide Hollywood #legend. but it is a shame bc Stuart is so so good here; he's absolutely having a ball with it‚ from his thick Texan accent to his over #sized cowboy hat‚ from the little subtle comic business he's doing (he sits at a table for a fancy pants high stakes card game without #waiting for their host and there's a beautiful little moment he does of realising everyone else is standing as the host enters and trying #to get back up again before everyone sits down). it's a beautiful performance‚ genuinely one of the best guest spots‚ i think‚ that the #series ever had in its 100 plus episodes. when this aired The Champions would have been roughly in the middle of its run #given the fairly lengthy production on The Saint‚ it's possible he filmed this before starting work on The Champions; then again‚ he has #top billing and is the main guest‚ which might suggest he was expected to be a familiar tv star by the time this went out #hard to say without a Pixley bible... regardless he seems to have very good chemistry with Moore. but then Curtis appeared to as well and #they apparently did not always particularly get along during filming of The Persuaders so who knows #with just 3 eps left this could quite probably be my final fave spotted in the saint; it's been quite the journey but I'm grateful to the #familiar faces who popped up along the way and made it a little easier whenever it started to feel like a bit of a slog!

[all-action-all-picture]

Dear Tumblr users, what is preventing you from looking like this?

#roger moore #classic uk tv #the persuaders #lord brett sinclair #1971 #1972 #the persuaders!

[uselessgaywhovian]

sorry, saw someone on reddit talking about how they "had" to kill shadowheart because they were playing a "good" character and she was "evil" and i'm like

not to make her too much of a little meow meow, but this little bitch wants to be good so much that Shar had to put a shock collar on her when she was like seven and like 40 years later it's still not working great

#shadowheart #bg3 spoilers #she thinks she's this badass stone cold shar worshiper until she sees a dog #eta: also seeing people in that thread complaining that the DC to persuade her not to kill Nightsong is so high even if you're romancing he #and i'm like #can't relate #didn't have to roll #kept my mouth shut and trusted that she didn't really want to kill Nightsong #and SHE DIDN'T #I WAS SO PROUD OF HER

[tinydance]

for @faiasakura​ who said “Jason buys these to sit in at the batcave”

#jason todd #red hood #batfam #arts #i still have about .05% batfam knowledge #but i am easily persuaded by friends' requests :p

[fluentisonus]

ik we still have zounds ("'swounds") ("god's wounds") but we should bring back "'sblood" ("god's blood"), "'sdeath" ("god's death"), & "'sflesh" ("god's flesh") as oaths

#tgis is what reading restoration era english has persuaded me of #<- where they appear #thoughts #language #i think some are in shakespeare also but i'd need to check

[themathomhouse]

this disability pride month, stop making jokes about people in wheelchairs standing up or walking.

can I stand and walk? sure, for a short while and with pain. the consequences for trying to be out all day without a wheelchair are that I'll be in bed for the rest of the week, too tired and in too much pain to move.

but the government won't give me my own wheelchair because they have the same attitude as these jokes - I can stand up, so I don't need one. exercise is good for you, you should walk!

it keeps me trapped in the house, unable to do anything more than short stints anywhere without borrowing or hiring a wheelchair - one that causes me pain to sit in and relies on someone to push me (usually with difficulty), because they're not going to have a high-end chair for that sort of thing.

it's not a miracle that a wheelchair user can stand or walk. it's something we should aspire to see more often.

#disability #disability pride month #chronic fatigue #fibromyalgia #cfs/me #post exertional malaise #like fucking hell people we should really be long past this by now #why am I seeing these bullshit jokes on my dash in twenty fucking twenty three #i did a short walk to a cafe yesterday because I thought I was up to it #and my right leg has seized up #my ankle can barely take my weight and my hip won't move properly #also lol I almost certainly have hEDS but cannot persuade a doctor to give me a referral #in summary #stop being fucking dense #i would rather people who don't need mobility aids use them than have people struggle because they don't want to be seen as a faker #or have people think that you have to reach a certain level of severity before you need it #also if I had a wheelchair I would bring my cat with me more places but that's by the by

[rainbow-nerdss]

"How come you never talk to me about sports?"

It's late in the afternoon on a lazy Sunday, and they're just curled up on the couch together. Eddie's got a book in one hand, and he's carding the fingers of his other through Steve's hair. Steve's got the sports pages from the morning paper in his lap, and he's looking through it idly.

He stops when he hears Eddie's question, though, cranes his neck back to look at him.

"Huh?"

"How come you never talk about sports? I just realised I don't even know what teams you support." Eddie dog-ears his book and sets his book aside as he asks.

Steve frowns. "But… you don't care about sports. Like, at all. Why would I bore you by talking about it?"

"Are you bored when I talk about D&D?” Eddie asks, hand stilling in Steve’s hair. Steve shakes his head. “I tell you about my sessions all the time. I tell you about the books I'm reading and music shit, and you always listen to me. You don't really care about any of that stuff, either."

Steve shakes his head. "Yeah, but that’s different,” he tries to argue.

“How so?”

Steve wracks his brain for the words to describe it. “I like listening to you talk about D&D because you get so excited. I like hearing you talk about something you care about."

Eddie smiles and kisses Steve’s forehead. He looks almost smug, like he’s won a debate Steve hadn’t even realised he was part of.

"So let me ask again. Why don't you talk about sports more?"

Steve is quiet, staring at nothing in the distance as he puts the pieces together.

"I never... Nobody ever.... I mean, except Lucas, but Robin and Dustin always rolled their eyes when I made references to it, so..."

Eddie cups Steve’s face and looks him in the eye. "Tell me something."

"What?"

"I don't know. What's the drama right now? How's your team doing in the league or the championship or whatever it's called? Tell me about the last game you saw on TV! I wanna hear you talk about your interests, too."

Steve feels warmth burst in his chest as he sets the newspaper aside. 

Eddie leans back against the couch, watching fondly as he listens. Steve is hesitant at first, stumbling over his words. A little voice in the back of his head keeps tripping him up, telling him Eddie doesn't care about any of this and you're boring him, wrap it up.

Every time he lets the voice win, though, every time he stops talking, trails off, or tries to change the topic to something Eddie might enjoy more, Eddie asks him a question.

"What does that rule mean?"

"How does team selection even work?" 

"What would your dream line-up look like right now?"

And Steve answers. And Eddie listens.

When Eddie finally runs out of questions, Steve's surprised by how happy he is.

"You're really cute when you talk about sports, you know that right? Your face lights up with it."

Steve leans in and kisses Eddie. "I love you."

"Love you too, babe. I really do."

#steddie #steddie fanfic #steddie hc #steve harrington/eddie munson #steve harrington #eddie munson #my fic #because steve deserves to have people show an interest in his hobbies too #unfortunately i know jack shit about sports can you tell? #anyway jock steve rights #eddie loves steve and that includes wanting to hear him talk about his favorite things #maybe someday eddie will persuade steve to play d&d and steve will get eddie into some tiny gym shorts to play some 1v1 #and they'll both love it because they love spending time together #they may not fully understand each other's interests but they do their best #because they LOVE EACH OTHER #anyway thank you and goodnight